FIRST AND SECOND

LANGUAGE
ACQUISITION

Jericho Ubaldo as The Main

Discussant

Sofia Maristela Galing as The Geri Chamille Peru

Activity/Task Writer as The Slides Creator
 • What is First Language Acquisition

LIST OF • What is Second Language Acquisition

• Determine the connection between
First Language Acquisition and Second

CONTENTS Language Acquisition

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WHAT IS FIRST
LANGUAGE
ACQUISITION?
First Language
Acquisition

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WHAT IS SECOND
LANGUAGE
ACQUISITION?
Second Language
Acquisition Speakers may already
possess a STRUCTURED
VOCABULARY for
referring to language
structures and language
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at any age, consciously
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I acquire a second
language from an

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INSTITUTIONAL
ENVIRONMENT.
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 WHAT ARE THE
CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE
FIRST LANGUAGE
ACQUISITION AND SECOND
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION?
 CONNECTION BETWEEN
FLA AND SLA
Second-language acquisition assumes knowledge in a first language and
encompasses the process an individual goes through as he or she learns the
elements of a new language, such as vocabulary, phonological components,
grammatical structures, and writing systems.

Phonological Grammatical Writing

Vocabulary Structures Systems
Components
 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
FLA AND SLA
There are many differences
between first and second language FLA: Starts at birth
acquisition. Some are as follows. SLA: Occurs at any age
First language acquisition (FLA)
starts at birth; however, second FLA: instinctive and requires no
language acquisition (SLA) can instruction
SLA: is non-instinctive and requires
occur at any age. FLA is instinctive instruction

and requires no instruction, but

that is not the case in SLA. FLA is FLA: a part of usual life
part of the usual life, but SLA is a SLA: is a new addition to the
new addition to the usual life. usual life
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REFERENCES:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335690866_An_Introduction_to_t
he_Second_Language_Acquisition

https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/college-
artslaw/cels/essays/secondlanguage/First-Language-Acquisition-and-
Classroom-Language-Learning-Similarities-and-Differences.pdf

https://www.colorincolorado.org/article/language-acquisition-
overview#:~:text=Second%2Dlanguage%20acquisition%20assumes%20kno
wledge,grammatical%20structures%2C%20and%20writing%20systems.